Frauds

Lloyds Bank have called on social media companies to do more to tackle ticket fraud ahead of the Premier League season.

Football’s biggest domestic league returns in two weeks but scams are on the rise, with the banking giant stating that victims are losing, on average, £154 to criminals.

The Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has launched an inquiry into the collapse of the Norton pension schemes, with the aim of ensuring members of collapsed pension schemes are better protected and supported in the future.

https://pensionsage.com/pa/WPC-launches-inquiry-into-Norton-pension-schemes-and-fraud-compensation-fund.php

A British Asian woman was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing nearly £1 million from her employer to help her online lover who did not exist.

Manjit Singh, 60, from Toxteth, was sentenced by Liverpool Crown Court on Monday (17) after she confessed to eight counts of fraud, according to reports.

The latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) for the year ending March 2023 show that total crime fell by 15 per cent compared with pre-Covid 19 pandemic levels.

However, despite no significant change in fraud overall, there was a 549 per cent increase in advance fee fraud (from 60,000 to 391,000 offences) compared with the year ending March 2020.

https://www.policeprofessional.com/news/overall-crime-down-but-figures-show-six-fold-increase-in-advance-fee-fraud/

A man has admitted 19 charges of fraud – worth nearly £2 million.

Christopher Peach, 51, formerly of the Black Lion Hotel, on Scotland Street, Ellesmere, pleaded guilty to 19 fraud charges at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Wednesday morning.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2023/07/19/man-admits-19-fraud-charges--worth-nearly-2m/

In this contributed piece, Sameer Hajarnis, Chief Product Officer at OneSpan, discusses the growing threat of digital identity theft and how best to protect yourself, as well the future of digital identities.

The digital world touches everything we do: work, shopping, even your wallet. And the one thing that keeps your digital life secure is your identity. So what makes up your digital identity?

A man who pretended to be his dead mother in order to cheat his grieving father out of his life savings has been jailed.

Daniel Cuthbert, 42, drained up to £56,000 from his father's account over a 14-month period from 2017 to 2018, including a redundancy pay-out.

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/son-impersonated-dead-mother-swindle-105200079.html/

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched a new consultation on giving the National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) more powers to investigate food fraud.

It asks for views on NFCU’s access to further additional powers that would allow food crime officers to be lawfully on premises and assist with searches, following an arrest by the police.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a warning for anyone who owns a passport, in a stance against fraud.

On Saturday (July, 15) the department issued a warning to people who own the official document, sharing a tweet from their official account. DWP are best known for distributing benefits and pensions, as well as cost of living payments, reports the ECHO.

Barclays Bank, represented by TLT and barristers from Fountain Court, has won a major UK Supreme Court case against a customer who fell victim to bank transfer fraud.

The ruling stated that banks cannot be held responsible for authorised push payment (APP) fraud where an individual customer directly instructs their bank to make a payment which is subsequently found to be prompted by fraud.